After deciding to stay, the village chief Xu Youcai became more enthusiastic about Qiao Youhua and them, and told the other villagers, who learned that heroes like Qiao Youhua and others were willing to stay and protect their village.

Every family was very happy, and they took out the chicken, duck, fish and white noodles that they were reluctant to eat on weekdays and sent them to the village chief's house to entertain Qiao Youhua and the four of them.

Near noon, four wooden tables were set up in the courtyard of the village chief's house, and the heads of all the households in the village were basically all there.

The wooden table is full of the fruits of Xu Yu'er and other village women's busy work all day, chicken, fish, meat and eggs are basically available, in this era of scarcity of materials, such a rich dish is rare for the people of the village, even if the Chinese New Year can not eat.

It can be seen that the villagers welcomed Qiao Youhua and supported Cheng Dù.

The village chief took out a jar of old wine from his house with some difficulty, and Qiao Youhua hurriedly stepped forward to take over the jar.

Xu Youcai patted the dust on his arm and said with a smile: "Old man, it's useless." This altar of Xinghua Village was specially treasured by Yu'er when his father got married, and it has been nearly 20 years since I counted it, and I specially took it out today to reward the strong men, I hope you don't dislike it. ”

"Uncle, where are you talking about this, this is a twenty-year-old wine, but it is an honor for us to be able to drink it." Qiao Youhua said humbly.

Open the sealing mud, the tempting aroma of wine comes to the nose, mellow and thick, it is really a good wine!

Handing over the task of pouring wine to Wu Ming, Qiao Youhua sat down with Xu Youcai and asked, "Village chief, take the liberty of asking, why don't you see Uncle Xu?" ”

A gloomy look appeared on Xu Youcai's wrinkled old face, and he sighed and said: "It's not a secret, Yu'er's mother died early, and his father went to the coal mine in the county to do hard labor in order to support our ancestors and grandchildren. ”

As he spoke, Xu Youcai couldn't help but burst into tears.

Xu Yu'er, who had just finished greeting the other villagers, also came to Xu Youcai's side at this time, and stood sadly next to the old man with tears in her eyes.

"Uncle Xu, Miss Yu'er, don't be too sad, wait for Qiao to go to the county seat in two days to see if you can find Uncle Xu and rescue him!" Qiao Youhua comforted.

"That's it, the strong man shoulders the heavy responsibility of fighting against the Japanese invaders, and there is no need to risk his life for this private matter of my family, today is for you to catch the wind, don't talk about this, you just have to eat, drink, rest well, and wait for today." Xu Youcai wiped away his tears and took the initiative to pick up the wine bowl and said.

Qiao Youhua didn't say much, and then picked up the wine bowl, but secretly made a decision in his heart.

On the same day, under the persuasion of the enthusiastic villagers, Qiao Youhua and the four of them were almost drunk, and in a daze, Qiao Youhua only remembered that a weak body helped him to the bed, and he grabbed it with his hand, as if he had caught a soft place, which provoked the soft body to let out a shy scream and leave as if fleeing.

Speechless all night, early in the morning, the dazzling sunlight shone on Qiao Youhua's face through the old wooden window, Qiao Youhua Huo Ran opened his eyes and woke up.

walked out of the room and came to the courtyard, only to see a shadow in the kitchen on the right side busy in front of and behind the stove, but there was no village chief Xu.

Qiao Youhua walked towards the kitchen, Xu Yu'er, who was busy, looked up to see her, remembering what happened last night, her cheeks couldn't help but turn crimson, and she hurriedly lowered her head and continued to be busy, not daring to look at him, "Up?" ”

"Well, why don't you see Grandpa Xu?" Qiao Youhua nodded and asked.

"Grandpa went to the village to call on everyone to join your anti-Japanese organization." Xu Yuer hurriedly replied, and hurriedly ran from the stove to the back of the stove to burn the fire.

Seeing that she was too busy, Qiao Youhua stepped forward to help, but she refused on the spot: "You are a soldier, how can you do such rough work." ”

Qiao Youhua smiled and didn't insist, after all, Yu'er was in this semi-feudal era. But that's okay, compared to those feminist vases of later generations, this is a model of a good wife and a good mother for men.

I can enter the kitchen, go to the hall, and roll the big bed. The first two are not a problem, and the last one should not be much difficult, with Yu'er's figure, a little training is definitely a gentle township that makes men ******** and linger.

Thinking about it, Qiao Youhua couldn't help but think of the scene in the sorghum field yesterday in his mind, and his eyes couldn't help but look at Yu'er's buttocks.

There was a sound of footsteps behind him, interrupting Qiao Youhua, who was on the fire, and turned around to see Ma Biao, Jiang Haidong, and the three of them came together, and walked into the courtyard one after another, and the three of them lived in other villagers' houses yesterday.

"It's really early, boss." Ma Biao, that guy smiled with ill intentions in his eyes.

Qiao Youhua knew that he was dirty in his heart, so he deliberately said with a straight face: "What time do you get up at this time, punish the three of you for running around the village for half an hour, you are not allowed to eat breakfast if you don't finish running, go quickly." ”

"Yes." Ma Biao and the three of them looked complaining, but they still faithfully carried out Qiao Youhua's order.

After Qiao Youhua and the others finished breakfast, Xu Youcai came back with about twenty teenagers.

"Village chief, who are these people?" Qiao Youhua looked at the twenty or so young men who were obviously a little malnourished and asked.

"They are all young people from this village, if you want to form an anti-Japanese army, please accept them." Xu Youcai said sincerely.

"It's okay to accept them, but if you follow us, you must first be able to endure hardships, and there may be danger to your life, and for the time being, we will not be able to pay everyone's military salary, of course, this problem should be improved in the future. Are they still willing? Qiao Youhua was a little worried.

Xu Youcai smiled easily: "They are all country dolls and croppers, and they can endure any hardship, besides, if you participate in your fight against devils, it is your hometown relatives who are protected, how can you be greedy for life and afraid of death." ”

After speaking, Xu Youcai deliberately raised his voice: "Did you say it?" ”

"The village chief's grandfather is right, we are not afraid of hardship, nor are we afraid of death, as long as we can protect our relatives, we are not afraid of more hardship." A tall, thin man who looked to be eighteen or nineteen years old took the lead in responding.

"Good." Qiao Youhua waved his hand to Jiang Haidong and the others: "Take them to the threshing floor and start training today." ”

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Zhengding County, the Japanese garrison headquarters.

A devil Nakasa sat behind his desk and looked at Wen Jiàn, at this time, a Japanese second lieutenant strode in, saluted him and said, "Your Excellency Squadron Leader, the 3rd Infantry Squad of our Inoue Ichiro went out of the city without permission yesterday and has not returned yet. ”

Hearing this, the devil Zhongzuo raised his head and suddenly became angry: "Baga, then quickly send someone to find it?" This group of bastards is simply becoming more and more undisciplined and acting on their own. He could imagine what this 3rd Infantry Squad was going to do, and he didn't pay too much attention to it, after all, under the strong military might of the Imperial Japanese Army, the army of the Chinese people had already fled and collapsed.

"Hay." The Japanese second lieutenant also thought so, and originally reported as usual, and then turned around and left the arrangement.